TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steigmann-Gall,Richard
TI  - The Holy Reich: Nazi conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 
SN  - 9781461938309
AV  - DD256 .H659 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - National socialism and religion
KW  - Christianity and antisemitism
KW  - German-Christian movement
KW  - History
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Positive Christianity: the doctrine of the time of struggle --; Above the confessions: bridging the religious divide --; Blood and soil: the paganist ambivalence --; National renewal: religion and the new Germany --; Completing the Reformation: the Protestant Reich Church --; Public need before private greed: building the people's community --; Gottgläubig: assent of the anti-Christians? --; The holy Reich: conclusion; 2; b
N2  - "Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. He demonstrates that many participants in the Nazi movement believed that the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. A program usually regarded as secular in inspiration - the creation of a racialist "peoples' community" embracing antisemitism, antiliberalism, and anti-Marxism - was, for these Nazis, conceived in explicitly Christian terms. His examination centers on the concept of "positive Christianity," a religion espoused by many members of the party leadership. He also explores the struggle the "positive Christians" waged with the party's paganists - those who rejected Christianity in toto as foreign and corrupting - and demonstrates that this was a conflict not just over religion, but over the very meaning of Nazi ideology itself."--Jacket
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